How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?

The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.

Court of Appeals of Arizona / Joined 1987 / Served to 2002

Noel Fidel

Judge, Court of Appeals of Arizona

Noel Fidel was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, who joined the court in 1987. Opinions & record ↓ Sources ↓

Tenure: 1987–2002 · 15 yrs

Judicial service

Year	Court	Appointed by	Vote
1987	Court of Appeals of Arizona	–	–

Judicial Record

In our data, Fidel authored 243 published opinions for the court (1987–2002), plus 22 dissents and 18 concurrences. Most cited: Mary Ellen C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security (251 citations).

Published, precedential opinions from the CourtListener corpus. Counts and rankings are objective and recomputable: how we count. We describe the record, not the judge. 96 of these were attributed to Fidel by a unique court-, date-, and surname-match against our roster (marked ), because CourtListener recorded no author for them. Each links to the official text to verify. How we match.

Selected opinions

Year	Case	Citation	Cited
1999	Mary Ellen C. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security	971 P.2d 1046	251
2000	State v. Donald	10 P.3d 1193	216
1997	Standard Chartered PLC v. Price Waterhouse	945 P.2d 317	130
1994	Nydam v. Crawford	887 P.2d 631	68
2000	Ahwatukee Custom Estates Management Ass'n v. Turner	2 P.3d 1276	64
1991	Swichtenberg v. Brimer· Dissent†	828 P.2d 1218	55
2002	Webb v. State Ex Rel. Arizona Bd. of Medical Examiners	48 P.3d 505	53
1992	Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest v. Hassell	837 P.2d 158	52
1995	Amerco v. Shoen	907 P.2d 536	49
1995	DePasquale v. Superior Court	890 P.2d 628	49
1996	MacCollum v. Perkinson· Concurrence†	913 P.2d 1097	47
1991	Rogers by and Through Standley v. Retrum	825 P.2d 20	47
1987	Gatecliff v. Great Republic Life Insurance	744 P.2d 29	47
1993	Rainwater v. Rainwater	869 P.2d 176	46
1993	Marriage of Fenn v. Fenn	847 P.2d 129	45

Showing the 15 most-cited of 283 authored opinions in our data. “Cited” is inbound citations across the CourtListener corpus. Case links open the ruling’s full text (CourtListener) or its page here; read the methodology and verify against the primary source.

Questions & answers

How do judges of the Court of Appeals of Arizona reach the bench?: The court's current selection method is merit selection with retention.
Which court was Noel Fidel on?: Noel Fidel was a Judge of the Court of Appeals of Arizona.

Sources

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15 years on the Court of Appeals of Arizona. Data as of 2026-03-31. Informational only; verify against the primary source before relying. Not a consumer report (FCRA).